{"id":12511,"date":"2018-09-28T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2018-09-28T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:32:22","slug":"my-take-on-the-senate-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nomination-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/my-take-on-the-senate-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nomination-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take on the Senate Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The biggest lesson from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a> is that Americans are fools if they passively rely on the Supreme Court or Senate to protect their liberties<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045678885441081344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Posthumous winner from the Kavanaugh Supreme Court frenzy &#8211; Historian Henry Adams, who long ago labeled politics \u201cthe systematic organization of hatreds\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045721685415141382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the biggest frauds in Washington is that &quot;&quot;Coverups never last,&quot; as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWhitehouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenWhitehouse<\/a> claimed today.  Most federal coverups succeed which is why so few top govt. officials are in prison today.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045698660573597696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democratic demands for an FBI investigation of charges against Kavanaugh would be much easier to support if <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenFeinstein<\/a> &amp; others had not been so conniving with Ford&#39;s allegation<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045686357832736768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the bright side, at least today&#39;s Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a> helped restore Americans&#39; faith in their political system.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045483941216407554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vietnam War hero <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBlumenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenBlumenthal<\/a> is not too swift to invoke the &quot;false in one thing, false in all things&quot; legal maxim <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaghHearing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaghHearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045431159319146497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kavanaugh making all these references to weight lifting.  Do we know how much he bench pressed? This could swing a couple Senate votes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045397500000178176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The five-minute rule for congressional hearings is one of the best rules Washington ever devised for preventing the disclosure of truth. Janet Reno played it better than anyone  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045332506076205056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Surprised that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenFeinstein<\/a> totally embraced the Swetnick &quot;10 gang rape parties&quot; charge &#8211; by far the shakiest allegation out there  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045320181009059841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Personally, I think the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a> optics would be better if he was taking occasional puffs on a stogie instead of clutching a water glass<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045401030106796032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kavanaugh was a cornerback for his high school football team.  Dude might have a different persona if he&#39;d been a linebacker  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045404484359397376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kavanaugh asks for a break in the hearings. In old-time boxing lingo, this would be when the &quot;cut man&quot; in the corner patches him up &amp; gives him smelling salts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045406114995732480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watching a congressional hearing searching for facts, hard not to think of the old line about a blind squirrel finding his nuts.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045356244675055616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I recall covering the weeks of the House 1995 Waco hearings; lots of damning info came out piecemeal but press focused instead on Janet Reno&#39;s demeanor.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vkqQYjJaFf\">https:\/\/t.co\/vkqQYjJaFf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045353089153343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLeahy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorLeahy<\/a> also embraces Swetnick allegations &#8211; this is a domino that could fall  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KavanaughHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KavanaughHearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045332045759750144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does anyone have a prediction on what will be the biggest surprise at the Senate Kavanaugh hearing later this morn?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1045162661716078593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest lesson from the #KavanaughHearings is that Americans are fools if they passively rely on the Supreme Court or Senate to protect their liberties &mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 28, 2018 Posthumous winner from the Kavanaugh Supreme Court frenzy &#8211; Historian Henry Adams, who long ago labeled politics \u201cthe systematic organization of hatreds\u201d &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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